If Google, manufacturers or carriers want to stop most users from rooting their phones, they need to eliminate the incentive to do so. Pre-installed apps like Visual Voicemail, City ID, Amazon this and Amazon that, some of which load automatically on startup, are all the incentive many users need. Blocking…

@tengobotas: Removing the pre-installed bloat is key for me.

@jupiterthunder: Except that for any junk mail I get I promptly remove any pages with my name or address on them, stick the rest in postage-paid return envelope happened to be included that day, and gets returned to some poor sap who sent me the junk in the first place.

Vote: Daemon Tools

An easy Tasker set of profiles to do basically the same thing:

@periferral: "maybe they should have a location where users can upload useful configurations"

The news to me here is that there are so many people to whom this is news!

The news to me here is that there are so many people to whom this is news! This capability has existed in both smart and dumb phones for many years, and has been a convention in modem dial strings for 25 years or more.

@psirontech: It's not out of date. The Fascinate does not include Google Search or Google Maps, and therefore does not qualify to be in the gallery.

"Google's site only covers those phones that are made "with Google,""...

"...freeing up hard drive space on your Android phone..."

Given the frequency with which people seem to lose their phones (how does this happen?), you would probably be better served having a copy of your phone information in your car than having your car information in your phone.

@ppiddy: But then you would have spent far less money, and been able to use your repaired product immediately. What fun is that?

Re: You don't own that software

Re: Software making us stupid

@A.Jaswal: In the US there are 11 channels available, and only three choices (1,6,11) if you want non-overlapping channels. 40-60 SSIDs means there is likely a lot of interference from other wireless networks in your area. If any of the SSIDs are duplicated (I'd guess that 5-10 of the 40-60 are Linksys), this can…

@lbelenky: I've passed gas before, but never mustard. It sounds painful.

Circumstances would have to be very dire for me to connect my phone to a public/unknown computer and expose my data to the whims of whatever viruses or malware might be lurking there. Also, I might be less likely to forget my phone when it's plugged into a computer than I would a flash drive, but I would be more…

"If you don't leave effective voicemails, they may never be heard."

Mr. Warthurton didn't say, but some quick math reveals his assumption that a text message consists of 140 bytes/characters of data (forget the fact that text messages aren't transmitted as data). AT&T (his carrier) may have such a limit, but the real limit of the standard is 160 characters. So if I send him 1GB of…